Picker Wheel

Enter between 2 and 100 options in the Options tab, with one choice on each line. Names, meals, tasks, games, places, topics, numbers, and other short labels can all be used.

Tap or click the centre of the wheel to spin. The wheel turns through several rotations, stops at the pointer, and shows the selected option.

Choose Keep winner when the selected entry should remain available for later spins. Choose Remove winner when completed entries should leave the wheel.

Open Winners to review recent results. The latest eligible removal can be undone while the working list still matches the state created by that removal.

The Style tab changes the appearance of the wheel, while the sound and fullscreen controls are available directly from the wheel area. Visual style, sound, confetti, and animation do not change which option is selected.

A picker wheel is a visual way to choose one item from a list. Each option occupies one selection position, and a spin produces one winner from the entries currently on the wheel.

The wheel can contain custom text instead of fixed values. That makes it useful for names, tasks, meals, activities, destinations, questions, topics, or almost any other list where one result is needed.

With four different entries appearing once each, every entry has a theoretical 1-in-4 chance, or 25%, of being selected.

A picker wheel does not judge which choice is better. It only selects from the options you provide, so the list should contain outcomes you are prepared to accept.

Classrooms: Add student names, groups, questions, revision topics, presentation slots, or activities. Remove winner can help give each entry one turn before repeats.

Food and meals: Add restaurants, meals, cuisines, recipes, snacks, or takeaway choices when several options are acceptable.

Tasks and chores: Add jobs, exercises, study topics, household chores, or work items and let the wheel choose what comes next.

Games and groups: Use players, characters, challenges, actions, destinations, films, or activities when a visible random choice is useful.

Presentations: Add speakers, teams, agenda items, or topics. Removing each winner produces a random order one result at a time.

Creative prompts: Add characters, settings, objects, themes, drawing subjects, writing prompts, or brainstorming ideas.

Keep winner leaves the selected entry on the wheel. If the list does not change, the same entry has the same chance on the next spin and may legitimately win several times in a row.

Remove winner deletes the exact selected entry after the completed spin. This is useful when every entry should be used once before repeats, such as presentation order, classroom turns, chores, or a sequence of tasks.

If duplicate labels exist, removing one winner removes only the selected copy. Other entries with the same text remain on the wheel.

Removing an entry also changes the probabilities for the next spin. A four-entry wheel gives each entry a 25% chance; after one unique entry is removed, each of the three remaining entries has a 1-in-3 chance.

Every non-empty line represents one selection entry. If every label appears once, all entries have the same theoretical chance of being selected.

Repeated labels remain separate entries. For example, the list Read, Walk, Read, Exercise contains four equal entries. Each line has a 25% chance, but Read occupies two positions and therefore has a combined 50% chance.

This can be used as simple weighting, but the wheel does not support direct numeric weights such as 30%, 20%, and 50%, and it does not create unequal segment sizes.

Check accidental duplicates when every visible label is supposed to have the same combined probability.

For a wheel containing n equal entries, the probability of one particular entry is 1/n. Multiply by 100 to express that probability as a percentage.

Two entries give each entry a 50% chance. Four entries give each 25%. Ten entries give each 10%, and 100 entries give each 1%.

These probabilities describe the chance before a spin. They do not guarantee an even pattern over a small number of spins. Random sequences can naturally contain repeats and gaps.

When Keep winner is active, earlier results do not make an entry more or less likely on the next spin. With Remove winner, probabilities change because the list itself becomes smaller.

Use a Picker Wheel when you want one result from a custom list and the visible spinning wheel is useful for the people taking part.

Use a Random Name Picker when the entries are specifically people and you want a workflow centred on selecting names.

Use a List Randomizer when you need the entire list shuffled into a new order rather than one winner at a time.

A Coin Flip is simpler for two generic outcomes such as heads or tails. A Dice Roller is better when the result should be a number or a simulated die face.

The winner is selected locally in the browser using Crypto.getRandomValues() before the visible spin finishes.

Random values are mapped to the current list using rejection sampling so the integer selection does not favour particular entries through modulo bias.

After the winner is chosen, the tool calculates a target rotation that brings the selected segment to the pointer. The four-second spin is therefore a presentation of an already selected result rather than a physical simulation that decides the outcome.

Sound, confetti, wheel style, animation timing, and where the wheel appears to slow down do not affect the selected entry.

Winner selection and list processing happen in the browser. The tool does not require an account, and the option list is not placed in the page URL or uploaded for the selection process.

The working list and preferences such as sound can be stored locally in the browser. Recent winner history belongs to the current page session rather than a permanent account history.

The picker wheel is suitable for games, teaching, presentations, brainstorming, casual choices, and other informal uses.

It is not an independently audited random-drawing system for regulated gambling, lotteries, high-value prizes, legal selections, security decisions, or other processes that require formal records and external verification.